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This would be such a simple, easy fix too. Increase the icon size, increase the stroke width slightly, raise from light grey to white or near-white (inverse for light mode). Then it would look like the system.
> There are other aesthetics my brain associates with AI, like beige/cream colors, orange accents, and serif typefaces First, they took my em dash. Now, they’re taking my neutral background with orange accents.
I think the bigger problem here is not AI, but the increasing tendency for designers and designers-groups to look at one another's work and copy it. It almost seems like every designer has an inferiority complex where they look at others and think, "I'm not as good as them, therefore I have to mimic what they do." This results in everyone copying Apple, for example, even their bad decisions. Somebody noticed a while…
Interestingly, I've found that AI has actually made me more interested in design because I'm now able to actually do some things, whereas before I couldn't get my creative visions built. As an example, I recently built my company's website and I'm really happy with the result. I wanted it to have some hints of Rollercoaster Tycoon, and with a lot of experimentation, direction, tinkering, and examples I got to somethi…
I'm rewriting my 11 year old SaaS. If anyone is interested or want to give me feedback, my contact in bio.
> where you have desktop AI apps on the left (Claude, Codex, Cursor) and macOS apps from Apple on the right (Finder, Photos, Mail). You can see how the AI apps all have much smaller, thinner icons than their native counterparts. This would be such a simple, easy fix too. Increase the icon size, increase the stroke width slightly, raise from light grey to white or near-white (inverse for light mode). Then it would loo…
Just did a SwiftUI app with Claude and it defaulted to sub-.body font sizes pretty much everywhere.
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The sparkle emoji has become an indicator for "this is an AI feature, click here to do AI things". I have even used it. The beige UI with orange accents probably refers to the design guidelines of Anthropic, Mistral, Microsoft AI and a bunch of other companies. They all try to use soft, non-threatening colours, and for some reason those two are a popular choice.
Huh, ok. I disagree. Sparkle emoji and beige cream or orange accents every where is definitely AI output, not some “AI features here”. I don’t even see sparkle emoji on any AI websites or “features”. It’s only in sloppy output and most people will tell you to remove it because it screams slop too much.
- https://www.salesforce.com/artificial-intelligence/
- https://copilot.cloud.microsoft/
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Meta_AI_...
- Literally the Gemini logo
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I don't think I'd clock the ramen one as AI, if not for the main image being AI generated.
The design, no. The content? “Cyberpunk ramen, street side. Bold flavors. Fast pickup.” Oh my god yes. The thing that really gets me about this stuff is - is all about the content, the actual content is what really matters, you need to have content that actually works, that people find appealing, otherwise you have dogshit. A staccato bullet point of marketing speak is dog shit. It’s nothing, it’s less than nothing,…
And now it's tweetable!
Interestingly, I've found that AI has actually made me more interested in design because I'm now able to actually do some things, whereas before I couldn't get my creative visions built. As an example, I recently built my company's website and I'm really happy with the result. I wanted it to have some hints of Rollercoaster Tycoon, and with a lot of experimentation, direction, tinkering, and examples I got to somethi…
Just wanted to say, really nice design. Night and day compared to the generic starting ones linked below.
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Thanks for not shipping your first draft!
Oh yeah I mean check these out: https://imgur.com/a/kLKTtAz https://imgur.com/a/9fidnRv The rollercoaster on the second one was the breakthrough that then eventually led to what I have today
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The cost-plus pricing strategy! Besides Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs, haven't encountered it much at all. Hope you start a trend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost-plus_pricing / https://www.costplusdrugs.com
Is it just me, or is "cost plus drugs" a horrible name? I know they probably intend it as "[Cost-plus] drugs", but I can't help but read it as "I'll do the job for you for the material cost, plus some drugs".
But “Drugs” wouldn’t be perfect…
Anyway no but now that you mention it maybe it’s too wonky of a name. Nothing better coming to the top of my head right now.
